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Unemployment and obesity during the Great Recession : evidence from US county panel data
Tobing, Elwin - In: Applied economics letters 30 (2023) 4, pp. 536-542
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Modeling the economic cost of obesity risk and its relation to the health insurance premium in the United States : a state level analysis
Woods, Thomas; Miljkovic, Tatjana - In: Risks : open access journal 10 (2022) 10, pp. 1-28
We propose a new approach for estimating the state-level direct and indirect economic cost of obesity in the United … between the estimates of the total obesity-related costs and the health insurance premium by state in order to evaluate the … state burden of obesity. Our estimate of the total national economic cost attributed to obesity is approximately $422 …
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Does delay cause decay? : the effect of administrative decision time on the labor force participation and earnings of disability applicants
Autor, David H.; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; … - 2015
Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer …
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Disentangling the contemporaneous and dynamic effects of human and health capital on wages over the life cycle
Gilleskie, Donna B.; Han, Euna; Norton, Edward C. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522200
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Does obesity matter for wages? : evidence from the United States
Majumder, Md. Alauddin - In: Economic papers : a journal of applied economics and policy 32 (2013) 2, pp. 200-217
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Intergenerational persistence of health in the US : do immigrants get healthier as they assimilate?
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2016
It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating substantial persistence in socio-economic status across generations. In this paper, we examine whether another form of human capital, health, is also largely transmitted from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452239
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Parental work hours and childhood obesity : evidence using instrumental variables related to sibling school eligibility
Courtemanche, Charles; Tchernis, Rusty; Zhou, Xilin - 2017
This study exploits plausibly exogenous variation from the youngest sibling's school eligibility to estimate the effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and...
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Parental work hours and childhood obesity : evidence using instrumental variables related to sibling school eligibility
Courtemanche, Charles; Tchernis, Rusty; Zhou, Xilin - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660339
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Maternal work hours and childhood obesity : evidence using instrumental variables related to sibling school eligibility
Courtemanche, Charles; Tchernis, Rusty; Zhou, Xilin - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 13 (2019) 4, pp. 553-584
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Recreational marijuana laws and junk food consumption : evidence using border analysis and retail sales data
Baggio, Michele; Chong, Alberto - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215669